The Shorts 330 was a development of the Short Skyvan freighter, a type which saw service in New Guinea in the 1960s.

As part of its program to continue development of the very successful A-320 family Airbus offered customers a new variant of the A-321 known as the A-321neo, having a lengthened fuselage with structural strengthening and a redesign of the undercarriage, and wing, with an increase in the wing area and